LAUREN LAPKUS Got Multiple Concussions

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3:08We all met in Evanston. Yeah. It's time once again for our annual fantasy football draft weekend and we're talking right now. Okay, a September 8th and you're going to be there. Are you leaving tomorrow? I leave tomorrow. A lot of us are we're convening in Chicago's North Shore in Wilmet where we've got two of our buddies who live. So we'll get in there as a wrinkle in the football season this year. There's going to be a game on tomorrow night. A rematch, Super Bowl rematch. And so I'm sure we'll be watching that and then Thursday morning we're going to be eight strong. We're going to drive to South Bend, Indiana, play a little golf and then you float in there at some point. A couple of the other guys. Yeah, Thursday afternoon. I'm going to bring the boys there first first day of school. Great. And then I'm going to rock and roll out to see you guys. Yeah. And then we're going to be Lake life in Michigan, not one of the great lakes.

4:09And you said it's one of the, it's one of the shitties. No, it's just one of the internals. That's great. We're very excited. I've not been to this house. Have you been to this house? I have. Back in the day. Okay. Yeah, it's our friend, our college friend Claire's parents, Lake house. Yeah. And so yeah, we're going to be there as with the, as with all things. I can of course, I could, I could right now look back on Wikipedia and figure out exactly what I was there because Rodwoodson injured his knee against the Detroit Lions. I think first or second week of the season. So I was watching that when everybody else was on the water and then put me in a bad mood. Yeah. That I have not recovered from. So pretty angry. Yeah. So football everybody getting ball back and I have not figured out how to be a good fan with it. Um, we're in a, uh, we're in a three strike pool where you opted out of it. Yeah. Too stressful.

5:09I didn't like it. Yeah. You were, it was too stressful for you. And a three strike pool for those you don't know. You pick one game a week, one team, you can't pick that team again. Uh, three strikes you're out. And, uh, so you, I kept your entry into this pool though. Yeah. Mama, dad are in it. Uh, the boys now are both kind of curious enough. I think I might just give one a minor way too. I might, I might just be out. Yeah, sure. Let go for it. Have one. Yeah. Um, the boys have inherited something from their grandmother. Uh, startle, startle reflex. No, uh, what they have inherited is they're already spending the money. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I like the minute it starts. Hurry is like, and then, um, I mean, imagine what you do with that money. I'm like, you've never come close. We do this 25 years. You've never come close and she's like, do you see how much it is this year? I'm like, it's immaterial. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, she's got a system.

6:09Yeah. Um, but it is a hope springs eternal. Hope springs eternal. It'll, um, yeah. That's what it does. Historic hope springs eternal. It'll be interesting how, how much, uh, how long we have our hope about our Steelers. Yeah. Um, I got a quick, uh, sort of call back show rec. Okay. From, uh, a guest on the show, I started watching Tatiana Maslani's maximum pleasure guaranteed on Apple. Oh, yeah. Which I really, like we're really enjoying. And, uh, and then there's a dude in it. And I was like, who's this? I like, do I know this guy? Like I feel like he's like a buddy and it's Charlie Hall. Um, oh, one of Julie Louis Dreyfus's sons who also was on the show. And I was like, yeah, that's why I feel like I know him because he was on our pod and he's great. He's so, he's so him. And, uh, yeah, he was just sort of like his personality when he was on the pod is, uh, is just lovely and infectious.

7:11And it's the same, same deal on the show. And, uh, so if you're looking for something, I really, uh, really give two thumbs up to Max. I don't know how it's going to finish, but we're in the middle of it now. And, uh, yeah, loving it. Good to hear. I, um, uh, probably no surprise based on everything you know, but I'm enjoying lanterns. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I, uh, I've only watched the first three, but I'd green lantern. I was a big green lantern guy. And I, uh, I'm enjoying it. I just, I just like that. I just like that dude. Yeah. Um, those are just some wrecks, guys. Those are just wrecks. Uh, all right, Pasha. Uh, fly safe. I will see you, um, uh, in Indiana, Michigan, in my technically be Michigan. Uh, yeah, have a great golf game with the fellas. Uh, I, uh, I love you. And do please enjoy, learn, do please enjoy Lauren Lapkins. She is a delight. See you soon, Sufi.

8:12See you. Yes. So nice to talk to a veteran podcaster. Thank you just relax. That is all his at once. I like, you've, you've had a lot, you've stretched over your rain. That's true. Are they all concurrent? Do you do? No, no, I'm down to one right now. And it's such a relief. I'm like, oh my God. What was the most you did at one given time? I think I had like four at one time. And also yours were some real, I mean, again, delightfully heavy premises. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them required a lot of effort on my part. So it wasn't just show up put on the cans and rock. No, no, but we did exist in a time where nobody could see us. So that was easier.

9:13I don't know if you like, you know, you just stop to brush your hair or anything. It's great. I mean, shout out. Was your first one 2014? Did I read that right? Um, yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Seth doesn't always brush his hair. You don't have to, you know, women have a different standard. Though we have to look at that. You can really, you can really say, look great. I don't think I was feeling pretty good about it today, Pa. Are you going to know where I said you were looking good? Oh, good, good. Yeah. Today's not one of your off days. All right. Well, you both have very nice hair or maybe I'll know by the absence of your praise that it's what I'm saying. Lauren, we have some things in common with you. I know. I know. Evanston, Evanston, were you born in Evanston? I was born in Chicago. Okay. We were born in Evanston, Evanston hospital. I can't believe that. That's so crazy. Isn't that such a small world? It's such a small world. And then you were born in Chicago, but how quickly did your family locate it? Soon after I was born, I moved when they moved and I was one and my brother was four.

10:14Gotcha. Yeah. Do you love Evanston? I do. Do you love Evanston? Yeah, we really do. How long did you live there? Because did you guys move away or did you live there? We lived in Will Met until I was about two. And then we both went to Northwestern. So we both had four years. Do you want to go to Northwestern because of Evanston? I mean, our parents went there and so you're kind of following and footsteps. Yeah. But they were not allowed footsteps. Our parents met there and never talked about it. Yeah. But it was on our radar because they went there. You were like, that's like a college. Yeah. Yeah. We knew it was a college, but like, Naria sweatshirt until we went there and then they became the most geared out parents in the world. Yeah. But they never had a sweatshirt. And I do also think there was because there were no sports of note back then. It's changed a little bit. But like they were never on television. Yeah. It was never like, oh, Mom and Dad's Alma Mater. Like you want to watch college sports? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We never really watch much college sports like growing up.

11:14Yeah. But then also we never like we we had been to Chicago. I want to say to like just go to Chicago. But I don't recall ever going to the campus until I went to visit Seth. And when he was a student there. Yeah. So what's your age difference? Two, two, two years. Yeah. But yeah. I was back in the end of last school year. I was back in Evanston and it was just great. It's like beautiful. Oh my God. Yeah. I know. It's so pretty. It's such a great place to grow up. Yeah. There's like an Evan Stoney and Walk of Fame now. Have you ever heard of that? I know my mom sent me a picture of it and she was like, get yourself on here. I don't think you're supposed to ask for a Seth. Seth, why do you bring this up? Seth, I don't. And well, now I feel bad. I was kind of going to I was hoping that Lauren and I were going to lured it over you, Josh. But there's no fun on you being the one guy. By the way, it's a it's like I know they're stickers. They're stickers. They're stickers. I still want one. Where is yours? I don't know. A couple people have sent me photos of it.

12:15It's lovely. Hopefully right in front of the peep. But it is like a real like don't get too big for your bridges when your Walk of Fame is a sticker. No, it can get peeled off at any second. Yeah. Also like there's some real weather up in Evanston. Winter time that's that Walk of Fame is going to look a little different. Another thing we have a genealogical overlap as well. Josh and I also have Lithuanian blood. You do. We do. This is amazing. It is amazing. What's the Lithuanian? It's father's father's side. Wow. That's awesome. Have you done that show where they go through? They were like Jewish Lithuanians on the run from like Cossacks. I did. You were oh my god. Was that amazing? It was fine. I it didn't uncover anything amazing. Yeah. It was most and but the one thing that was like they did this dive because we always knew Myers was a first name that then like coming through.

13:15Immigration got like flipped to a last name. And so we kind of find it found out it was like Trakjanski is like the Lithuanian last name that never was. But then I got I will say you like watch Finding Roots you get really excited. And then you like Google the town you're from and it's like so. Not really looking. Or it's just not it's not like Lithuanian. It's not like Vilnius and like beautiful castles and like gothic architecture. It's like a zoo that has a dog. Seth also as a guest for that show doesn't have the demeanor. I think that they would want. And so I just like. Well, they were like we traced your mother's side back 400 years. And Seth was like, well, I knew we came from people. Yeah. Was his. By the way, it's like that's like there was someone before the one you found. That's why I had to be 400. Okay. That's fine. It does. Great. No, I think I'll be weeping on that show. I mean, yeah, they like. I also just kind of had a said we have a we have a cousin who's always done a lot of like, Hey, I just found a new document.

14:23Kind of sends it out to everybody. And so I kind of knew the score. Oh, good. With that said, have you ever been to Lithuania? No, and I really want to go there. Um, but no, my, um, my dad has been back a number of times, but no, any of my dad speaks Lithuanian. And I always kind of wish I spoke Lithuanian because it's so niche. It's I mean, also just to speak a different language would be amazing. I feel like I'd probably be a smarter person, but also like it'd be. It's a very niche language. Um, it's not undo a lingo. You can't you can't start to learn very easily right now. Yeah. Oh, my dad, but I brought up my dad recently and he was like, that's fine. I was like, okay. Yes. Yeah. I felt bad about that. But I think we're good. Did he grow up there? No, he was born in Germany actually and then moved to the South side of Chicago when he was a baby. He they came over and did the whole deal. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. Very intense, which I do. I do think he has told me many interesting, crazy, heroing stories from that period of time. And I'm really bad at retaining information.

15:24I'm like, write it down. Like write down everything you just said. Because that's crazy. Yeah. My God. That's crazy. Not crazy enough to remember, but I know my husband has a really good memory. So if he was sitting there, he'll tell me the whole thing again. But it is by the way, I'm there's a high and low is being married to somebody with an excellent memory. Because I have the same thing. I find it's very unfair during fights. Because I like in the back of my head, I'm like, you did 10 mean things this week, but I can't remember. And they remember like word for word, what I said like four months ago. And I was like, I didn't say that. And he's like, yes, you did. I'm like, I also like the amount I want to be like, don't make me keep a journal. It's not good for our marriage. If I have to start keeping a journal, just because if I keep it, you're going to read it. And then we were going to find it. And then you're going to read it. Were you and your brother? So how three years apart? Yeah. Yeah. Were you close? Yeah, we always got along. I mean, like we were, we got along when we were kids.

16:26And then of course, there's that period of time where like he was with all his guy friends. And I was always like, churned hang out and they were like, yeah, fuck out of here. Yeah. But, but yeah, we always got along really well. And we're still close now, which is, I'm very grateful for him. Is he, is he still in Chicago? Yeah. Yeah. And that's, I also am jealous of that because it just seems so great. I just, I'm like, I don't know how to leave or do anything. Doesn't it seem hard? Where are you now? I mean, that's New York, but I'm, I'm Los Angeles and I, yeah, you're still, yeah, great. Yeah. But we talk about, you know, I feel like my wife, McKenzie, talks about leaving more than I do, but because I can't just, I can't think of a place that I would want to be. I love leaving Los Angeles and then I love coming back to it. Yeah. I know it is when you leave for a little bit, you can appreciate it a little more, but I feel like, well, also, I mean, it strikes me that you have built quite a stable, of co-collaborators. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the, I mean, community is the most, I think, important thing, having all these funny people that I like.

17:30And you, so, and we are going to get to your family trips, Josh hates when I do stuff like this, but you started doing, you kind of knew you were in the improv path, even in high school. You were taking classes. Yeah. Yeah. I started, yeah, I started in Provelin' Vic when I was a senior in high school, which was, I mean, being from where we're from, it was like so lucky to be so close to that. And I, yeah, my teacher at ETHS, Evanston Township High School recommended that I do that. And it was so like life-changing, truly. Like I just, like, once I could, because I was auditioning for all the plays and like putting all the pressure on it and then like I wouldn't get into the plays and whatever. And then I, I finally, like, found that I could just do my own thing and, and with, you know, a bunch of 24-year-old weird people. Yeah, no. Be my best friends, yeah. But like, it is the thing of you were getting real-world reps while other people were like learning lines from Arseneck and Owen Lace. Yeah. Would you mean- Yeah, would you mean- Yeah, would you mean- Which I mean- Is that better than the other? No, yeah. I mean, I, I was like jealous of them, but then I was, I was doing my own thing, which also helped me a lot, like, socially, I think, because I think I was kind of like nervous,

18:33especially like with that kind of situation, like going to a class and meeting these people and having to put yourself out there and just pushing yourself through all that awkwardness is really good for you. And were you taking- Were you taking the L out there? How were you getting to your- Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I would take the train, which is very exciting. And you were very strong. And you were totally outboarded. Yeah, they were excited for me and, yeah, it was great. And then of course, like, all my classmates would go get beers after and I'd be like, I can't get in, like, I have to go home. The train, I have to get home before the train stopped running. But it was so fun. And I'm going to see shows that blew my mind and- Yeah, I'm sure you know all the people that were there. I mean, like, I Susan Messing and Ryan Archibald. And I mean, there's like a lot of boom people, a lot of crossover with that. But I just, like, I remember seeing Ryan Archibald do a scene where he was holding up a loon, you know, in an improv scene where it's all not there. And I was like, whoa. Like, I like did- Like, object work was like blowing my mind.

19:33I was like, whoa. Yeah, it's like John Lutz is a guy who I feel like- Yeah. ... I've seen him improvise. He's made like a full omelet. You know what I mean? Like just literally- Oh, all the details. I know. I'm like walking through a table. Right. He grows sad that my object work is I would reach for something and decide what it was on the way down. So- You're like, I- He's like, you'd like grab a cloud and then by the time it came down, it was a trombone. But that's definitely not what. Would you ever go see a Meow Show? Did you even know about Meow at the cluster? I did. So they like came- The Titanic players, I feel like it was a bigger thing. Because they came to our middle school and performed. And I still remember the pieces of that too. It was very cool to me. And yeah, I was in Yamo and high school, which you guys had your- Like we were obviously- I think- Yeah. That we were the offshoot of that. The sketch show and everything. And that was like my passion. Got it. Fantastic. Yeah. I know I always kind of wish I'd tried to go to Northwestern. Because I'm like, that would have been cool. But I really wanted to leave Evanston at that point.

20:34Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. And you went to DePaul, right? Which is- Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. It was just honestly to keep doing improv. Yeah. But it was like you went to the college closest to the improv scene. Yeah, exactly. I could ride my- Physically close. Yeah. That's unbelievable. Did you- So- And then how- What point did you go- Did you stick around Chicago for a long time after college? Did you move out to LA first? No, I moved- I had a sketch partner that I performed with all the time. And we were going to move to LA. And then kind of at the last minute, she was like, I want to move to New York. Because my family is upstate New York. And I was like, okay, because you know, at that point in your life, nothing matters. Like sure, I'll go over there now. And so we went there. And I kind of planned to stay for like a year. I stayed for a little over a year and then moved to LA. But it was great. Because it was like- That's time in your life when like you just don't really- Your needs are so just low. I didn't need anything. I ate a trash all day long and it was great. Best. She trashed. Yeah, that's the time. She put that- I was starting like- I feel like if you're gonna do time-

21:36Do time- If you're gonna spend time in New York, if you're gonna live in New York, like right out of school is the best time. Because- It was. Yeah. Because you've been living in dorms or like not great apartments unless your parents are so wealthy that they've sent you up and something. And then it's like, yeah, no, you can share a tiny little janky apartment in New York and be like, this is great. Yes. They're all- I lived in three apartments in 15 months and they were all disgusting for different reasons. Yeah. And yeah, it was great. It was a great time. And you probably- No, come on. You love them all in the wrong way. No, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I once heard Steve Martin say about Santa Fe in New Mexico, it's a great place to live if you're very rich or very poor. Yeah, that's literally new. And I think there's like- I think there's like a good way to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Because if you think you're doing all right, you look around and you're like- Everybody else doing so much better. Yeah, no, I like- I couldn't even look inside a restaurant when I lived there. I wouldn't even dare to like wonder what they were eating. But it was great. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and ear from some of our sponsors.

22:37Support comes from Honorable. Hey, Bajay! Hey, Suvi. How are you? I'm good over you. Good. I'm very excited to share that we are collaborating with Audible, which is an app that I use a great deal. Yeah, it's an online store to get audio books. I just love it. I've been a member for so long. You know, I know we're a podcast, but sometimes it's nice to not just listen to podcast after podcast and listen to a book. I like to go back and forth. I like to read a book in bed at night. And then on my commute to work, I like to listen to that same book. I think some of the reading of some of the narrating, what would you call it, Posh? What do you call the narrators about it? Yeah. Better than ever. I just listen to this great book, The Sun by Philip Meyer. I highly recommend. And it was three different voice actors. I think maybe even four near the end. Will Patton, who's a great actor, who's done multiple books. I've listened to over the years. Just brings it to life in a way that I really love. And then when I'm reading it to myself, like his is a voice, I'm hearing.

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25:40Text trips to 64,000. That's trips to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this spring, Heavyweight revisits some favorite episodes. Yeah, I think I want to know why she made my life so difficult if she had some kind of thing against me. Plus, we check back in with our guests to see what's changed in the years since. How long has it been? Things have transpired. Yeah, the last 10 years, everything's changed. Listen to Heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. In partnership with Airbnb, I'd like to share a travel story. Oh yeah, go for it, Sufi. You know what I like, Pashi? What's up? I like a neighborhood. Yeah, me too. You know what I mean? I like to feel like I'm traveling and I'm amongst the locals. I'm not near a chain restaurant that I have in my hometown but I'm by a cafe

26:41that only those who live there and walk those cobbled streets are familiar with. And so when Alex and I went to Paris on a vacation, we booked an apartment on Airbnb. What neighborhood were you in, Sufi? We were in the Marais, Pashi. Oh, the Marais. And if you haven't been to the Marais, I don't even know how to describe it to you. You know what they call it in Paris? What's that? La Marais. Ah, la Marais. You've been. You've been. I haven't, but I would love to. And let me just tell you that it's just wonderful. You know what I mean? You're just in a home that the owners have taken great care and attention to make comfortable for you on your vacation. And you're just amongst everyone. You're a me. That's friend, Pashi. Oh, you're a me. Yeah, yeah. Lesemmi. Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You can be traveling with family. You can be looking to discover authentic and local experiences.

27:42You can be taking a trip with a group of friends. A group of a me. Too Lesemmi. So, growing up, what would you guys do? Were you guys traveling family? We would take mostly family trips to visit other family. So, we would do road trips to South Carolina where I had my aunt live there. We'd go to Indiana a lot. That wouldn't say that was a family trip, but that was my grandma live there and my other aunt lived over there. So, that was kind of a constant weekend sort of thing. And my aunt had an aunt in Texas and Ohio. So, we kind of would like do that. And then every once in a while, we'd have a special trip. We went to Disney World when I was five and that was a huge deal. My parents saved up and it was crazy. I do have a story about that because it was a memorable trip. Please. Well, yeah, but you can go through them. Not to, I mean, I could tell you the whole, and then we also went to New York City when I was in fourth grade, which was also very exciting.

28:44And then more in high school, my dad was like, we only travel if we're going out of the country. So, we did like a couple big trips to like other places. But he would never like, he would never think it was worthwhile to like go to like Seattle and just see what it's all about or something. Gotcha. We didn't do that. We didn't do that either. I would say, yeah, as I think about it, like the places we would visit were cities where we had a family connection. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess it's the most sensual. But there was never like, let's go to Seattle. Yeah. And but see, do you do that with your kids now? Like go to a random place and check it out or not really? Not really. Yeah, we do. I feel like I enjoy that like being like somewhere different and just like we went to Portland last weekend. My kids had not been there before and my husband had never been there. And it was like, we just were in Portland, you know? But your kids are young. I'm very impressed, right? Yeah. Oh, how? They're five and two. It's so it's intense to travel. They say two is the age to go to Portland. Just tapping out of, um, yeah, tapping out of just like being in your hometown for a weekend.

29:46It's nice. You can't do any of the things you would feel like, oh, I got to do these things around the house. And so yeah, just in Portland. And it's like, let's see what's the thing. It is relaxing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In that way. But yeah, is your, am I right here? Husbands also from Chicago? He is. He's from Beverly on the south side. And he and my dad coincidentally went to the same high school. I mean, many years apart, but just really bring it up in therapy. That's for therapy. Same, same weird nuns. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. It's for therapy. I know. I tried. You did. I tried so hard to get you on the north side. You're like, I found someone. What? Do you guys, because of that, does that make it convenient to go back to Chicago? Or I mean, for people who don't know, the north side and south side of Chicago might as well be a hundred thousand miles away? Million. Yes, no, it's no convenience to knocking out. No, no, no, no. We, um, it is nice for like Christmas, because we can see everyone at the same time. You know, I'm to like switch off Christmas's or something.

30:48Um, but yeah, it's a solid over an hour drive. So I mean, it's kind of a thing to go to each, each side. Right. Um, but no, it's nice. It's nice. And I like that we have that in common, because we also were kind of like, he's four years younger than me, but we were kind of circling each other like throughout life. Like he would come into Evanston to do Piven Theater stuff. And I, I never did Tiven, but I was like right there, you know, so it's just like we are to think of all the way any did I owe and like all the ways that we were kind of like around each other. But at that age, four years is like disgusting if I. Yeah, even though I will say Piven ages you up a couple years, right? Like it does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. improv. And improv boy is two years younger than his actual age of Piven boys, two years older. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. A Piven boy. Yeah. It's so true. Because it is the difference between theater. I mean, even in Northwestern, right? Yeah. We had like we had real theater kids and we had him. Yeah. Yeah. And it was even at that age like the theater kids were unironically pulling off scarves.

31:49Right. Yeah, just pulling it. Because they were doing the cherry orchard. Yeah. So you're doing zips-ups up. I love it. No one's true. I know. We're playing big booty, you know. I will say like if you had a crash out of girl and you realized she was dating an actor you're like, oh, it's over. I'm like a smart. He really has real sheets or something. Yeah, good frame. Or not or not, right? Or it's like worse. It doesn't matter. It's on the floor. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. They're just enamored with him. So first off, when you're doing these family trips, South Carolina, Indiana, Texas, Ohio, any of those, like any standout trips where those like things you'd look forward to or they felt obligatory. They were really fun. We would often, I have memories of riding in the car with my grandpa driving and my grandma in the front seat and me, my mom, my brother in the back seat. I don't know where my dad was. I guess he like got out of some of these sometimes. Well played. And just driving through the different like, just driving through different cities and

32:51getting little momentas at gas stations, which like meant something to me. I remember getting like going through Kentucky and getting like a Kentucky Derby pin and being like cool, like just little things like that. That one year, a little kid really stick with you. But South Carolina was always the one that really was a great place to go. I had older cousins who were really cool and they were in high school and like had a convertible and you know, we're like, cool. Went to the beach with their friends and like, it was very aspirational. I never did anything like that, but it was cool when I was little. And like they made me a mixtape that like I, you know, still meet the songs. It still reminded me of that time. But I, the big memory from my aunt's house is that I, they had a pool and I still am not a good swimmer at all. I'm going to, I'm planning to take swimming lessons actually this year with some friends. This is like a goal that we have. But I was very anxious there on the pool. Like swimming was always really crazy. And that was a big deal to me. My brother would always like pretend to be a shark and grab my legs on the stairs.

33:52And I was like, yeah, everything's the worst. And I was running around the pool and slipped and fell on the concrete and had a concussion. I was throwing up. And remember, I remember throwing up in her house on the fancy rug like coming inside. I remember the, I can see it from my POV of like just like the vomit coming out. But my positive memory is that I got TCBY after that ice cream. So that was amazing. Yeah. Ultimately, it isn't me. I mean, it's such a reminder and I'm incapable of doing it. Like no judgment, which is like if a kid is about to throw up on a rug, which is I've, I have witnessed my own children do, right? Yeah. Like and you, I'm like, don't, they're not the rug. And you just realize a kid, Pute, a kid about to puke. I mean, they barely think about the rug. Oh my god. No, I've caught Pute with my body to avoid having to wash the sheets. Like I'm like, I don't want to have to take all the sheets off. I'm like, you know, just letting them throw all over me. Yeah, this body just goes in a shower. Yeah. I'm fine. It's done.

34:54No, disgusting. I'm very happy by the way. I'm glad. Go ahead, sorry. No, no, I want to say my Disney World story connects to this because we went to Disney World, which is really, really thrilling. And we went with my grandma, my aunt, and then my mom and my dad and my brother and me. And one night, my mom and my aunt and my grandma went out to have like a girls night. And so my dad took me and my brother to see the Rodney Danger Field movie Ladybugs. If you remember that movie where there's a boy on the soccer team, I don't remember if he plays on a girl's soccer team or something like that. He, I believe he does, yes. Yeah. And I went to the bathroom by myself and I fell. I'm always falling. Oh my god. You're tall. I was five. I was five. Yeah. I fell on like a wet floor. And I woke up in bed next to my grandma who was snoring. And I thought it was my brother. And I was like hitting her and telling her to shut up. Because I thought it was my brother snoring and that was my grandma. But then when I fell by the pool, which was maybe a year later, they said I had

35:56another bruise on my brain. And my mom didn't know what it was. And I think I had a concussion then. And nobody knew. So I think I, yeah. And I've had, you've had a lot of head injuries. And my childhood that people were just letting go. So you fell in a, so you probably don't even know how Ladybugs ends. I never got to see it. I never got to see it. Don't bury the lady there. Let me go to the bathroom by myself, which I, you know, I'm very 90s situation. I just send a little kid in the bathroom by the cell. And then, yeah, I guess ended up with someone screaming and coming to find him. I don't know how that. It's like, it's weirdly worse that he didn't go with you because it was a movie that an adult shouldn't be enjoying. Like it's one thing to be probably to say the usual suspects. He's like, he's like, he's just like, well, we're going to be lost all day. Yeah. He loves Rodney Dangerfield. He does. I mean, yeah. But you were the little one. So your brother, I know. I know. I'm fine in the theater. But you fell so hard in the bathroom that you like woke up hours later. I woke up hours later. And I don't think anyone took me to the doctor.

36:58And just as an aside, I also hit my head on my radiator, my bedroom from jumping on the bed. And I think my dad, I work, the story was like that. He just kind of like put a towel on my head and then I went to sleep. That was a good. That's, if you Google it, that's not what it says to do. I'm not. I don't have it. We don't have Google. You didn't have it. And I'm fine. By the way, it was nice. I mean, having kids like I would love there not to be Google. Because the amount of times I'm like, I'm pretty sure this is just towel and put them to bed. Nobody lets you do that anymore about checking Google. Your instincts are towel and bed. 100% And now they're like, the amount of people that my mother lost like, AI says, I'm like, get that out of here. I know. I know. I know. I know. A lot of stuff. So you're, you were head banging your way through your, your song into different things. Are you still a clumsy into adulthood? Yes. Oh my god. Actually, I wasn't even thinking about this. But I hit my head really hard like a few weeks ago.

38:00And it was bad. I was like seeing stars. But it was like, I have this like, actually you can see it behind me. I have this little door going into a little storage crawl space. And I was coming out of it and just bonked. Just fully stood up before I came out. I don't know what happened. Yeah. But it was terrible. And then I was googling for weeks like, how, how do you know if you have a bad, I didn't do anything. I just was like, bad brain injury. How do you know, head bleeding inside? Really? I don't, you know, I'm just like trying to get answers. And they were like, you're typing like a caveman. Like, you're, you're words just, sometimes I just type whatever and see if they can figure it out. I'll just let all the typos go in. I'm like, you got it. It's, you know what I'm saying? It's supposed to be smarter than us. They're like, is this doesn't seem like a first time? Have you banged your head 35 times before? It's a shame. It's hard to do this with one. Yeah, no, that was, that's the most, I don't know that I'm so clumsy. I kind of will like, not super clumsy, but I'll walk into things which might also be an ADD thing and that I'm undeggised for. But like, I'll kind of like not know my width

39:01and like just kind of hit the door frame with my shoulder and keep going. I will say our oldest is so clumsy. And it's one of the things that makes my wife and I laugh the most because we'll like hear him walk into our room and you'll do his hair like, and then we'll be like, shit. How old are your kids? 10, 8 and 5, about to be 5. Oh my god, I love it. Yeah. What do you have, boys, girls? What do you got? Two girls. Yeah, congrats. Josh, you have kids? No kids. No kids. Yeah, I know. Moving the life. Oh my god, so you just say, fuck and do whatever you want on it. Dude, it's so, it's good. It's good. I don't know, it doesn't feel like that. He's giving me a hard time, but sometimes Seth doesn't comb his hair. Oh, I would. If you had the time, if you had the time, also we got to comb it's full of fucking lice. Oh my god, I was here. I mean, the types of bugs that can just show up on that. That fear has been a real uh, I should say. My mom was a preschool teacher, so I recall boiling all our hairbrushes like all the time. What is yours?

40:01So what was the, wait, was that with Ladybugs, Disney? It was a Disney World. Yeah. Gotcha. So a Disney World, you went to see a movie, which is probably, that seems like not wrapping your arms around the wonder of. No, we loved Disney World. That was a very, that was an amazing trip. I hope that my head injury happened on like the last night, because it was so fun. We had my, my aunt had a video camera, which we didn't have. So every time all our home videos were from one we were with my aunt. And like, so the, I got an invisible dog at Disney World, which was like a magic trick of like a hard leash with like, and that was, I walked that all over the place. Most of the videos are just me walking that around and thinking, I'm amazing. Do you feel like, I feel like invisible dog is one of those things, where you buy it and you just are already picturing how celebrated you're going to be back at school. And it's your, you were really inflating how true that's going to be. But in your mind, it's like, they're just like, clearing a path for you at the school to watch you walk your invisible dog. I know, yeah, I don't know that I ever had the confidence to bring it to school.

41:04It did to bring it. It's possible they didn't bring it home with us. It was like too annoying to pack. I don't remember ever playing with it again. Yeah, or you put it in a suitcase and then it got fold in in a way that's like, well, now it never, it's never going to have the same effect. No, it's going to believe that's a dog in there. Yeah. What else you went to New York City? We went to New York City. And that was very exciting. We stood outside of the late show and took a picture. We, all things were really stood outside of things. Like I got like a cat. I got a cat's t-shirt. We didn't see cats. Great. But I had that. We like, I don't know what we did. One thing we did that really stuck in my mind. We went to twins, a restaurant called twins, which was the most 90s thing ever where all the waiters were twins with each other. So you had to work a shift with each other. I kind of couldn't believe it was going to be that. I'm really shocked. Yeah, that was really cool to me. Yeah. And I looked it up more like a few years ago. It really wasn't thing. Like in my mind, it was like, that can't have been real.

42:05That was so, that's so specifically stupid. But it feels, I mean, that's great. It's a great use of everyone's time. I wonder how many people leave because it's like one of the twins is like, like, hey Gary, I can't do this anymore. And it's like, come on Larry. And it's like, no. I want more friends. I can't. Yeah. Do you think there's ever, do you think there were ever triplets where they, two of the two of the triplets on the side were like, we just got to take the job. I feel like triplets would be great because you don't both have to, but you don't all have to go. You could just have two of you. Yeah, you shouldn't. The biggest mistake would be to cut somebody out. You should bring them in. Yeah. Yeah. I do recall we also went to the Statue of Liberty. And we went to Ellis Island and found our family names. Oh, that's fun. That's fun. Like when you put a, what is that called? Where you like, like you put paper. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A rubbing. I don't know. A rubbing. We did a rubbing. Don't tell people. I believe pencil rubbing. We did a rubbing at Ellis Island. Yeah.

43:05Yeah. They now, there's a lot of signs saying a rubbing. Did you say, so you did not see a single Broadway show when you were there? I don't think so. It doesn't, it didn't stick with me. And then the main big memory too is that we got stranded at the airport because there was a crazy storm. We had a crazy turbulence. And I remember holding my beanie babies that I bought in New York. And then we landed in Pennsylvania for a layover and stayed overnight on the floor. And that was also, that was more memorable than the entire trip, I think. Just nice. Yeah, it's lots of an airport. Did you guys have, like, would your parents have packed games and things? Like if you're on the floor of an airport for a night, what was there? Yeah. Any activity? Our biggest game in our family was, would you rather, which is a game my mom believed she invented, but of course, is a thing anyone can say. But, um, yeah. So there was eventually, there was a board game called, Would You Rather Round? It was like, I missed my chance. But no, we would play that all the time.

44:06And that was like kind of our huge time passer. Like, play Would You Rather and just come up with different scenarios. Yeah. My mom recently stayed with my kids and taught my daughter, Would You Rather? She wants to play it all the time and it's kind of sweet. At bedtime, she's like, wants to play. Did you, were your parents like, when something went wrong, like, uh, cancel flight landing in Pennsylvania, sleeping on the floor, were your parents like, Hey, let's make the most of it or were they like losing their minds? My mom, looking back on like, she probably internally was so stressed out, but she was really good at being like, let's pretend. It have, like, she was really good at that, um, especially being a preschool teacher, like with little kids, like she could make it kind of fun. My dad, I feel like it's like, we're so good and just like put his hat over his eyes and like, like, I don't like, I feel like he was just very chill about things. So he, I would never hear him being like, what the fuck? Like, he wouldn't be like that. He would just be like, internally going like, whatever. Yeah. Just Indiana Jones on an airplane. Just tip down.

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48:13Visit hymns.com. I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this spring, heavyweight, revisits some favorite episodes. Yeah, I think I want to know why she made my life so difficult if she had some kind of thing against me. Plus, we check back in with our guests to see what's changed in the years since. How long has it been? Things have transpired. Yeah, the last 10 years. Everything's changed. Listen to heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. In partnership with Airbnb, I'd like to share a travel story. No, yeah, go for it, Sufi. You know what I like, Poshy? What's up? I like a neighborhood. Yeah, me too. You know what I mean? I like to feel like I'm traveling and I'm amongst the locals. I'm not near a chain restaurant that I have in my hometown, but I'm by a cafe that only those who live there and walk those cobbled streets are familiar with.

49:14So when Alexi and I went to Paris on a vacation, we booked an apartment on Airbnb. What neighborhood were you in, Sufi? We were in the Marais, Poshy. Oh, the Marais. And if you haven't been to the Marais, I don't even know how to describe it to you. You know what they call it in Paris? What's that? L'Amorere. Or L'Amorere. You've been. You've been. I haven't, but I would love to. And let me just tell you that it's just wonderful. You know what I mean? You're just in a home that the owners have taken great care and attention to make comfortable for you on your vacation. And you're just amongst everyone. You're me. That's friend, Poshy. Oh, you're me. Yeah. Lesemy. Lesemy. Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You can be traveling with family. You can be looking to discover authentic and local experiences. You can be taking a trip with a group of friends. A group of me.

50:15To Lesemy. Did you and Howard, I mean again, you guys went to Portland, are you and your husband like good co-travelers with two small kids? Do you feel? Yeah, I do think so. I think we balance each other out. And it's really nice to have that. But the hardest thing right now with the ages they are is that my kids prefer that I do everything. So it's like, even if he's willing to do everything, they're just like, they want me to do it. So like on the plane, like I'm sitting with them and he's across the aisle. And like that's, you know, he can have his own experience. He's like, yesterday we flew, he's like, that was great. And I was like, I think you had a better time. He was like playing chess on the screen with his hot sky sitting next to him. You know, and then they're like chatting. And I was like, they were a little annoying to me. But I think, yeah, it felt a lot longer. Right. But if he would have taken one of them, they would have not been having it. No, it would have been terrible. Yeah, or if you were like, hey, switch with me for this one.

51:17No, they would just been screaming and grabbing at me. So it's like, I know what has to be done. But it's, yeah, sometimes it's hard. Yeah, we do have to do the theater of me offering to put our daughter fed, even though she's gonna. I mean, so we all know how it's going to end. But I do am like, should I? Addy, can I take you to bed? I think, yeah, you stink. I mean, it's good to hear that because I think, I've heard it from many other dads that it's a common thing. But I think he can feel bad sometimes. But it's like, yeah, I mean, again, we're all working off such small sample sizes. But for me, it was way more our daughter. So the fact that you're daughter, so I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the little one just copies whatever the older one does. And she's like, yeah, of course. Yeah, bad habits. Bad habits, baby. So when you mentioned that your dad wanted to travel abroad, did you guys go abroad? Were those trips you did? Yes, we did. And those were really special trips. We went to Italy and went to a number of cities. We went to Florence, Vienna, or Venice, not Vienna.

52:23We went to Florence, Venice, and Sienna, that's why I just said that. Sienna was really cool because we went there because my dad knew somebody who was teaching a cooking class there with students that would come. And so we went and stayed at this, it was all rural. And we stayed in a cool farm area and made spaghetti. And I ate my first cherry from a cherry. I was like, very picky growing up. My first cherry was picked off of a tree. I only have picket. She'll only eat tree cherries. She's so picky. She doesn't pick it. She won't eat it. But my dad was a bit frugal with these trips. So my brother and I shared a bed. And we were in high school. We were like, this sucks. I mean, obviously, that's the worst. And so we were like, I remember we were like shoving pillows between us. Like just like never touch, you know, just like this is... Yes, of course. It's that period of time when you're like going through everything terrible. And we slept with the windows open and there were no screens.

53:26And my brother got covered in mosquito. Like they ate him a lot. Like he had a welt. And I don't recall having anything. And so that was also very annoying, you know? I'm fine. And he was like suffering. Some people just have bug blood and it's a whole different thing. Yes. But that was kind of harrowing. And the trips were really fun. They were like, you know, a lot of the pictures from those times were not smiling. Like we're just inksteed teens just being like, I'm pissed and I'm in the most beautiful place ever. So I'm sure I wasn't like always fun myself. But I remember them really positively. I guess that's the thing you have to learn as a parent as well. It's just have confidence. They'll remember them positively. Yeah, yeah. We went to England in France as well, which was also really cool. And again, stayed at one of the worst hotels in Paris that I think exists. It was disgusting. But like that, I also am thinking back. I'm like, how did they book a trip? Who was booking? Who was helping you?

54:26Like I don't think we had a travel agent. Like that sounds. Our mom did it all the time. And it's like looking back. Like when we before we took trips, she would just like the amount of like paper that would just be like spread out with like phone numbers. You know, country. We're like getting the information. I don't mean to sound totally stupid, but like I actually don't know. She was like, she would like take books out from the library that would have hotels in them. Like you know what I mean? It would be like a book, the big book of hotels. And then she'd like circle numbers. Or they would be like newspaper things. Like almost like classifieds. And they would be like house for rent in like Northern Michigan. And we'd say. She would save if there was an interesting like newspaper article about a place. She would save it for you know, however many years it would take her to go to that place. That's so nice. It's like I save like everything on Instagram that I want to do and then never look at it again. I feel like I've had like papers. I would be like, this is meaningful to me. And I will do this one day. But she had, I mean again, her recipe books growing up were just like all cut out from newspapers.

55:31And then like paste it into. I love that. It was great. And then although at the same time I remember she made maybe three different things. The entire. Well, yeah, same. No, she had she had probably a 12. What were your, what were the mains? Chicken Kiev. That was the big one. Yeah. Keeve now it's called chicken keeve but never. Yeah, you're right. It was Kiev. It was flank steak and big potatoes. Yeah. Well, it's pretty good. Yeah. There was she makes a really good macaroni and cheese that has bacon in it. Yeah. It's a big one. Been there, chicken and rice. That's a really, yeah. Yeah. A lot of you. You were you were never going to be sure to starch with our mom, which was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you go to eat like all kinds of snacks and you're growing up or was she like? No, we would our sort of our famous call out was we want all the meats and all the cheeses. And just be that. That's when you would yell to her. Yeah. Well, this is before we knew Shakyudery. So we wouldn't. Yeah.

56:31We wouldn't yell, but it was sort of a celebration. That's a nice kind of snack. That's like that's a nice fancy snack. It's great. Like cracker. She'd cut up a pickle. It's really good. She made these things called hanky pankies that were very good. Yeah. What's that? It's like a those little rye toasts or like those small toasts with like an aloe wet or like some kind of a cheese on it and then baked. Wow. But then she remember they were saw there was some sausage in there as well. Yeah. It was a real. Yeah. And then she would do like chicken wings was a big dinner where she would just put like frozen chicken wings on a pan and just like cook it until they were like basically charred. We ate a lot of like browns chicken. Did you ever go to browns chicken? No. It was like KFC but not. Okay. I don't know why. I don't know how popular if it was just Midwest or what but. Loved browns chicken. That's our version of that. I don't think anyone was actually making chicken in the oven. I'm a mom if she heard this would be like I did that all the time. You know, but I don't remember.

57:33No, I'm certain that we're coming in under. We're hitting the under for what my mom thought she did. She would do we do like those fillets and wild rice. Are you right? I mean, by the way, I had no complex. Pork and spaghetti was a classic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And now I've gone vegan much like I can't have any of these things. Does do they does your family understand that? Because I feel like Midwestern people struggle. They understand it to a degree but I'll like offer to like make my own stuff when I'm home. Like there's always something that my mom's going to make and she's figured out how to do it vegan. So because it's Josh, they celebrate it. Like as because he is the golden child, like it is like, oh yes, veganism. We must we must go find the soups off to the store to get the soups. Poshies coming to the soups. I pick up my own stuff. I try to make it as easy for them as possible when I go home. But she always makes them effort.

58:34I feel like it's vegetarianism, veganism. That's been hard for my family and my husband's family to wrap their head around what that. My husband's a vegetarian. But like so can you have pizza? It's like well does the pizza have meat? You know, it's just like this questions are just like yeah. Vegetarianism is a certainly level one compared to veganism's like level five. As far as understanding you should be able to lock it down pretty easy. But vegetarianism has like, we don't have to get all into this. But vegetarianism has like, there are exceptions to the rule of no animal products. Which yeah. And I have a friend who's vegan who will eat eggs every once in a while. Yeah well, yeah. Oh that person's not vegan. Any Josh. I was wondering how hard Josh was going to throw a snob on that. And he didn't give you his accurate. You saw the real him learned. Yeah, that person's a vegetarian. And he showed you his true face. I'm happy I got to see that. When you were in Italy as teenagers,

59:35were you allowed to like have a glass of wine at dinner? You know what? I think my brother did. I feel like I held back from even doing something like that. I don't know why. But also back at home with your friends were like having the odd beer. Yeah, yeah. We smoked more than we drink. And going to like parties where the kids were drinking, I was always like, what's going on here? You know, it was a different vibe. But I do remember that when we were in Italy, my brother's ex-girlfriend was also there. I don't know if she was studying abroad or what she was doing, but she was there. And she invited us all me and my brother to go out that night. And I was so shy and I don't know or something. I just didn't go. And I remember laying in the room being like, I wonder what they're doing. Like they were like, oh yeah. In Italy at night having fun. And I was 16 and I was like, nah. So I don't know. Yeah. It is crazy because it's not a thing. You don't want to be the one to tell your kids that, right? You don't want to be like, look, when you're 16, go to the Italian club.

1:00:37You kind of hope they are that kind of kid. Go. Go. I know. I mean, it didn't take me long to start doing whatever else, you know. But it's for some reason that was like, I was like, oh, I don't think so. Yeah. Like it is. That's all you know. If you know you made the wrong choice if you're lying in bed being like, I wonder what they're doing now. No, I know. If you're ever missing your teenage brother you're sharing a bed with, you know you made the wrong call. Wish it was home. So. Oh, we, I was in Salt Lake City. We had a bunch of friends who were there because our northwestern had made the NCAA basketball tournament. So some of us went. And we just got like a hotel room with two queen beds. And that was four guys. And like one guy insisted on doing pillows stacking in the middle of his bed. It's like, we're already like adult men. So two on a queen bed, that's a lot of space. And then when you add a row of pillows and it's also like,

1:01:38do we need these pillows? No, no, no. No, no, no. It's going to happen. No, but I will say I did, you know, in improv you travel a lot with your friends and share hotels and stuff. And I did end up cuddling my friend one time in bed when I woke up and I was like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I was sleeping and I was in the mood for a couple of years. Yeah. I think it happened. This is not a obviously a family travel thing. It is a childhood story about you. Can you explain, do you still have an active soap collection or is it an old soap collection? Yeah, it's inactive now. I think I threw it out a few years ago. Okay, I got to see you part. I saved it for 30 plus years. Yeah, it was a really, it was a special thing. So yeah, it was a great soap collection. It was just unique shapes of soaps. I like to collect all kinds of things as a kid. And I took great care of my collections and my toys. Everything was put back where it was supposed to go. I was very, you know, a type of soap.

1:02:38Were these purchased soaps? Were these freebie soaps? These were mostly purchased some hotel soaps, but mostly were like a purchased shape, you know. Oh, I don't have a fish. I need to get that, you know. I had a Mickey Mouse soap that was really big. And then when I opened my box, it had shrunk down to like half the size. And I was like, oh, they shrink. What was the, what was the, at its peak, how many, how many bars of soap were you talking? I think it was, I think I had like a solid 25 bars of soap. You didn't get too out of control. It was contained in a beautiful box. Yeah, that's not crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Each wrapped in its own Kleenex. And what made you decide it was time to say goodbye? I don't know. You know, sometimes I regret when I threw. I've always saved everything. And I, so when I throw things out now, I feel kind of like, wow, I'm like really throwing this thing out, even though it's like obviously trash, but like, I've saved like all kinds of papers from my childhood.

1:03:39Every journal I ever ever had, I have all my beanie babies. I have all my playmobiles sets. I have every American girl doll and every single thing that came with it. It was like, I just don't get rid of anything. And I don't even want my kids to play with it. It's like too good. But I'm, I think with the soaps, when they all shrunk, I realized it was time. Like they started to get like cracks. And I was like, they're not even good anymore, you know? A research says you had a collection of pristinely preserved soaps. I don't know if that's your line of life. That's what I'm saying. Like your words. It does seem like you may be judged on Wikipedia. Well, they were pristine preserved, but they were not. I couldn't do, there's only so much I could do. You know what I mean? Like the time came for them. And it was, they died. Yeah. Yeah. Have you, I mean, I know you just said you sort of don't want to give these old things to your daughters, but have you given them anything and have you been disappointed with how they've treated them? Yeah. So just recently, I've talked about my beanie baby collection on my podcast in the past. And I had, I also met Princess Diana, which I have talked about, but I'm, you know, I met her. So I've talked about it.

1:04:40People know this story, but I'm happy to tell you very briefly that she came to Evanston to have a go-on-to-gown. Yeah. I wasn't schooled them. Oh my god. Okay. Oh wow, crazy. So did you see her? I did not. I was in a wheelchair at the time because I had broken my leg so badly. And they had like roped off parts of campus for her to like motorcade in it. And like I was in convenience by it. And I was like angrily like feeling myself like, god damn it. I love that. I remember you were famous day of the time. You're like, you know, she puts all this time and effort into clearing landmines. Me and well, kid in a wheelchair, can you get nearer? Yeah. So yeah, I did not see her, but obviously a lot of we had heard where she was going to be. She came to like shake hands with people. She literally just got out of the car like out of the street. And we were all there. And I shook her hand and then rode my bike around. I was like, I just got princess Diana's. So I talked about that. So recently at a live show that I did, someone brought me a princess Diana, a beanie baby, which as you know, are worth millions of dollars. Right. And so I never went down in price. They were the one, the one fat that never went down in price.

1:05:44Yeah, I was really excited to receive this. And it even had a plastic cover on the tag. So it was really, it's a, it was in great shape. And I accidentally let it just left it on a table. And my daughter was like, what is that? I need that. And I was like, no, you can't have that. That's not for you. And she would then she wanted to even more. And I was like, no, no, no, no. Like this is a, you can't, you can't, because she loves to take tags off of everything, which is fine. But I'm like, you can't take the tag off. Like, and I also, I know it's worthless. Like I do understand it, but I'm like, but I have it now. And I want it to have the tag on it. And she's like, crying. It was getting to be out of control. So I was like, I have a box of things like, I have a Bini Baby box. And I'm going to let you have it. And, but it's, it's, I'm not going to get it tonight. I'll get it out of the basement. And we'll pull it out. And well, whatever. She was like crying. And I'm like, okay, but I had, I was wrestling the Diana Bini Baby out of her hands. It was very pathetic. And then I pulled out the Bini Baby. So she was at school. And I opened it up. I was like, I can't let her touch. They were so good.

1:06:46Like the tags, like they were beautiful. They were, they were perfect. There's not a stain. They're just lovely. And I, so I dug through and I found a few that had no tags. And that I'd play with, played with a lot as a kid. And I pulled those out and gave them to her. And she was satisfied. And then totally stopped caring about that. I mean, of course. I mean, I feel like you should have just gone straight to eBay and been like, you know, a lot of filthy Bini Baby. Or even, yeah, no, I mean, other kind of toy. And you're like, I'm like, these are smushies. And she's, I'm going to tell her these are being made. I like that you both know it's worthless. But also that if she takes the tag off, it's worth half as much as worthless. It's, it's, it's completely trashed that way. Because online, you know, people list them for like $65,000. Like literally they're listed for so much on eBay. But I think they've sold, you have to look at the sold price. And the price they sell for is like $6. They're not worth anything. But, but it's the sentiment and the fact that, you know, it connects to a story in my life. And so now I feel like it really matters. Of course. Yeah. Totally. It's so lovely talking to you, Lauren. You too. This is so nice.

1:07:47Is it, is it true that you and Benner are doing more earliest show? Yes. We just shot this summer. I'm so excited. We did a six episode season. I, it is something the algorithm is always, it must be the algorithm that's like, no, I'm a talk show host and we'll just like to like it. But you like this. I find it endlessly, endlessly tickling to my. Oh, thank you. We had so much fun making that originally. It was like 10 years ago. And it was a funnier, die branded web series for Cap and Crunch. Random one. Yeah. Now it, now we're making it a real show. So it really was so great. We had the best time. And congrats on Stuart fails to save the universe, which is another one not 10 years ago. But right that part, you first played the part almost, right? That's true. Oh my god, this year I just was doing things I did a long time ago again. I think that's good though. I think that speaks to the quality of it. Ten years ago. There's like some sort of horoscope thing. I, yeah, I was on Big Bang Theory for like eight episodes as Denise, Stuart's girlfriend.

1:08:47And then now we get, we have our own show. It's crazy. It's so crazy. It's on HBO Max and it's like, it's a single cam. It's totally different from Big Bang in the style. It's like a sci-fi comedy. It's kind of dark. It's we definitely very weird. And we got picked up. So I'm excited. It's going going well. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's awesome. Before we let you go, Josh is going to hit you with our speed round questions. Okay. Okay. Here you go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational? Oh, I guess educational. Oh, fuck. I suck. That's okay. That's great. But I like to go around cities and see things. But you know, I'm supposed to stop talking. Okay. Go ahead. No, that's great. What is your favorite means of transportation? Car? That sucks too. Yeah, no, please. People have said car. You're not alone in this. You're not alone and educational either. Motorcycle. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family,

1:09:49what family would you like to take a vacation with? My besties, the Smith sisters. They host a serious exam show so people might know who they are. But they are the best and we're very close. And I'm planning to take a family trip with them. I think that'd be very fun. Oh, great. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh, that's a great question. It has to be not my husband. It could be your husband. I would pick him because he feels like he would figure shit out on the island and make it something better. That's important. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? I really want to go to Lithuania and Greece, which are the two places my parents heritage. So I want to go there, but that feels hard. With my little kids. That's why it's a dream. You are from Evanston, Illinois, famously. If you had to get more families to come visit Evanston,

1:10:49what would you tell them about that town? You know, it's a very family-friendly town. It's very easy to go to the beach. It couldn't be easier. You have the easiest beach day ahead of you. And then you can also be in the city and go to Chicago and have see some sights. That's one thing I love about it. Because living in L.A., I never go to the beach because it's so annoying. And I grew up across just Lake Michigan right there. You just walk over to the beach and relax. We were just talking about East Coast beaches. And how there's so much easier than the West Coast beaches that we all grew up thinking were the nice ones because of pop culture. Yes, I know. All the TV shows were surfing in California or whatever. Yeah. But it's just like the East Coast. That's where we just like with little parking lots. Everything's ready to go. I know. I love that. And then Seth has our final questions. Lauren, have you been to the Great Canyon? No. Do you want to go? No. I could.

1:11:51No. That's what I mean. We're going to stick with no. We're going to accept the right answer. Thank you, Lauren, for your honesty. A lot of people, especially I think during the 250th anniversary of this country, feel like they have to be patriotic talking about this whole that Americans had nothing to do. So we do thank you for embracing the truth. I have a good time. And it was great talking to you. Congrats on everything. You too. Thank you so much. Yeah, hopefully we'll see you in person soon. This was a fun. I know. I hope so. Bye. Bye. Have a great day. Here we go.

1:12:57Oh, let's go. Remember strips, grandparents, wherever they would go. Lauren went to gas stations collecting mommas and toes at a rent's house. There was a pool. Her bro was being a dick. Grabbed a rank. Oh, wasn't cool. She ran in and she slicked. Oh, no. A Lauren had been concussed. A lap guess was concussed. Ride off her feet on the concrete. And Lauren had been concussed. She thought he was a shark. A lap guess got concussed. Girls not down the Disney World. Lauren was with the dudes. Went to go see ladybugs. Went to the bathroom. There was water. Water on the floor. She slipped in and hit her head.

1:13:57Walk up hours later. Slap in a quill mother in bed. Oh. A Lauren had been concussed. A lap guess was concussed. Her floor was where she hit the deck. A Lauren got concussed. Does it know how late about 10? Cause lap guess got concussed. And I like everything was bad. She went to Italy. Lauren's been a C&I and a cherry offer tree. But wait, there was that time. The radiator met her head. Dad wrapped her head with a towel. Said her off to bed. I'll know. A Lauren had been concussed. A lap guess was concussed. Oh, gosh, it's wide. Does it know the time? Lauren gets concussed. Big sheep has an invisible dog. Cause she has been concussed.

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